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Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
by viveksharma 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Dear all Has anyone used context to produce articles conforming to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/) If so could you share the setup/layout? I am a newbie who has just begun with the manual and the excellent tex.iso uploaded recently by Hans (Thanks, this version works beautifully!). The latex elsart.cls does something similar but I was wondering with the better capabilities of Context someone had used it for submitting to a biomedical journal. kind regards Vivek

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Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
by Vivek Sharma 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Dear all Has anyone used context to produce articles conforming to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/) If so could you share the setup/layout? I am a newbie who has just begun with the manual and the excellent tex.iso uploaded recently by Hans (Thanks, this version works beautifully!). The latex elsart.cls does something similar but I was wondering with the better capabilities of Context someone had used it for submitting to a biomedical journal. kind regards Vivek

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ConTeXt in auctex
by Berend de Boer 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I've recently moved most of my context.el macro's to the existing ConTeXt support in AUCTEX: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ And added new goodies such as selecting an environment from the menu or a setup command. Makes writing ConTeXt even easier for beginners. This is beta quality, it won't destroy your documents, but it might not work perfect either. You need to check out the CVS AUCTEX to give it a try. I'm looking for feedback from users, so comments please. I'm also looking for good suggestions how to specify parameters for ConTeXt macro's within Emacs. We have complete access to a macro's parameter list including allowed values, but I struggle a bit how to make that available in Emacs. Perhaps people here now other packages that solve these problems? It's quite a generic easy: show parameters for a routine and permitted values. - -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer (PGP public key: http://www.pobox.com/~berend/berend-public-key.txt) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFAgHCZIyuuaiRyjTYRAqFwAJ9FQLrCPFjMsuUTBrymt3eA5ub8bACgzaCM Rq5RxmuUdm0dKUNAhZaAKGs= =2i0R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Possible bug in texexec
by Morten Høgholm 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Dan Luecking has reported the following problem on c.t.t.: When mptopdf is used on a .mp file it preprocesses the file and the result (on my system it seems always to be named mptrace.tmp) is run through mpost. This mptrace.tmp has new-lines after every semicolon (;). This causes an error when the semicolon is part of a literal string, because mpost syntax requires such strings to be entirely on one line. I mentioned also texexec, because mptopdf seems to call texexec for some purposes. I know too little perl to even know what to look for, much less propose a patch. This behavior has been confirmed under WinXP (fptex = TeXLive8) and Mac OS X (tetex). This particular problem can affect the latest mfpic (0.7, which I maintain) if a user processes mfpic's .mp output file with mptopdf. Users can work around the bug by modifying their copy of mfpic.tex, changing the line GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation; mfpic and grafbase % to something like GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation: mfpic and grafbase % This change will be provided as patch to mfpic shortly. -- Morten Høgholm

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numbers as dropped caps
by Tobias Hilbricht 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Dear readers of this list, I would like to use big numbers at the beginning of paragraphs just like droppedcaps. However, if I use the DroppedCaps-macro with numbers, it does not work. See the example below - a letter works, a number not. How can I use numbers like droppedcaps? Thanks for helpful hints in advance Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht ------------------------------------ \def\MyDroppedCaps% {\DroppedCaps {} {uplr8t} {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}} \language[de] \starttext \MyDroppedCaps H allo ich bin das H und bin am Anfang des Abschnitts sehr gro"s geraten. Aber ich kann mich auch klein machen und sehe dann so aus: h! \MyDroppedCaps 1 2 3 im Sauseschritt bringen wir die Liebe mit. \stoptext -------------------------------------

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\index + \definedescription
by Pavel Stupin 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Hello, In my document, I have a description defined in this way: \definedescription[DictEntry][headstyle=bold,location=serried,width=broad] I use the DictEntry description like this: ***************************************************************** \startDictEntry{Walters, Barbara (1931- )} a US television journalist known especially for her series Barbara Walters Special... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{Waterhouse, Keith (1929- )} an English journalist and writer of novels and plays... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{West, Rebecca (1892-1983)} an English writer and journalist. She wrote many novels... \stopDictEntry ... etc. ***************************************************************** What I would like to do is to automatically create an \index{} for every DictEntry so that every entry then appear in the register. Probably, I should use 'between' parameter when defining my DictEntry description, but I'm confused with what should be the proper argument in 'between=\index{???}. I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance. Best, Pavel.

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ConTeXt and the blind
by Alan Bowen 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

I have very recently launched a new journal which has been designed on the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in print—hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in PDF files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is that he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it is not easy.) So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all the formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so as to leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather that he can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path from a ConTeXt source file to an HTML file—at least, a specific query about this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have gone unanswered. Cheers, Alan

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vim syntax file for ConTeXt
by Gour 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

By lookin' at mailing lists' archive I saw several posts regarding Scite as editor of choice for ConTeXt. Since I'm using vim, I'd like to stay with it, so does someone have some vim syntax file tailored for ConTeXt? Any ConTeXt vim user? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: request for help with suffix arrays
by Jonathan Nicholl 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

> Message: 11 > From: "vinuth madinur" <vinlin(a)linuxmail.org> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:40:27 +0800 > Subject: [NTG-context] Re: help required w.r.t " vardef " > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Thanks Hans! > That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u > mentioned.I'll try it. > > Now one last thing : > > Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used > as "suffixes"? > > something like , > > a[0]:= "A" ; > a[1]:= "B" ; > a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" > > > there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; > > so now I want to have , > > i := 0; > T.a[i] = blahblah(); > > so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T > " . > > I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". > I tried a[] as string type and used it with > > forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: > ..... > endfor; > but this does not work. > > So, can u please help me out here? > thanx in advance. > > Vinuth. > -- > ______________________________________________ > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > > Powered by Outblaze You could use 'scantokens': string a[]; a 1 := "A"; a 2 := "B"; a 3 := "C"; T A := 11; T B := 12; T C := 13; for i = 1 upto 3: show (T scantokens a [i]); endfor; end This produces the output >>11 >>12 >>13 The idea is to store the suffixes as strings, and then use 'scantokens' to extract them. Best wishes, Jonathan ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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Generalized \installcompoundcharacter
by Matija Pretnar 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

With the advent of UTF-8, there comes a great possibility to improve readability of the TeX code. For example: instead of \int_a^b, you could write S_a^b, where S is the character for integral. Or greek letters and any other math symbol imaginable. I tried using \installcompoundcharacter S {\int} and similar commands and all the characters show up nicely, but the spacing is all wrong, because they are interpreted as variables instead of operations, relations, ... I think this replacement would be easy to implement (if it isn't already implemented), because with math symbols, you don't have to worry about hyphenation. You could simply replace the characters with corresponding command before sending it to TeX. I already made some kind of python script that does that, but for each file separately. And with many files, you have to preprocess each one individually, which sums up to another shell script and many temporary files. Cheers, Matija

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

I'm sorry that I hadn't read the mail by Jonathan Nicholl. Yeah, that was very clear and precise . thank u all. But I still can't figure out how I can have the contents of variables or the expansion of "def" as suffixes.I now think it's not possible with "def". I'll try out somethings now. Thanks again. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Thanks Hans! That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u mentioned.I'll try it. Now one last thing : Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used as "suffixes"? something like , a[0]:= "A" ; a[1]:= "B" ; a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; so now I want to have , i := 0; T.a[i] = blahblah(); so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T " . I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". I tried a[] as string type and used it with forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: ..... endfor; but this does not work. So, can u please help me out here? thanx in advance. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Pragma-ade site down?
by John Culleton 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I can no longer access the www.pragma-ade.nl site. What has happened? I recommended it to others and they were blocked also. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Moving chapternumber in the margin ...
by Willi Egger 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi everybody, Studying the details manual I thought to have found a way to print the chapter number on the margin. Each increase of the chapternumber would move the figure a predefined distance downwards. Now when using a \def{\dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} my chapternumber moves down. Replacing the \realpageno with \currentheadnumber the chapternumber is not moving or only after a couple of pages ... Is there someone who could hint me how to approach this? Please refer to the attached sample file "bleedingchapternumber.tex" Thanks and regards Willi % pagenumbers in the margin at half makeupheight % % Context file % filename: bleedingchapternumber.tex % W. Egger % 12.04.2004 \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \setuppapersize[A4][A3,portrait] \setuplayout[location=middle] \setupcolors[state=start] \def\shifted{% \dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} % \def\shifted{% % \dimexpr(\currentheadnumber\rightmarginwidth)} \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,marginedge}] \startreusableMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground} path p; p := fullcircle scaled 50pt ; fill p withcolor blue; p := unitsquare xyscaled 50pt shifted (0,-25pt); fill p withcolor blue; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture leftenlarged 50pt ; % draw bbox currentpicture withcolor red ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \defineoverlay[Pagenumberbackground] [\useMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground}] \definelayer [Pagenumber] [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight] \startsetups Pagenumber \setups[Pagenumber:Number] \setups[Pagenumber:Finish] \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Number \setlayerframed [Pagenumber] [x=1mm, y=\shifted, location={right,top}] [width=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), height=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), foregroundcolor=yellow, background=Pagenumberbackground, frame=on, offset=none] {\framed[frame=on, width=.8\rightmarginwidth, align={left,lohi}, offset=8pt] {\placeheadnumber[chapter]}}% \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Finish \framed [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight, background=Pagenumber, frame=off] {} \stopsetups \setuptexttexts[margin] [] [\setups{Pagenumber}] \starttext \showframe \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \stoptext

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Two lines in header
by John Culleton 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

A current book has a title that is too long to fit in the textwidth when set with expanded spacing. I want to set up the even page header like this: 101 Home Based Businesses for Pet Lovers \break doesn't work. Two backslashes don't work. Suggestions? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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syntax on bbl files
by a 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hello, new user ...having troubles with m-bib ... I did a test file worked fine the file was smiall... Is there a way besides the log to track down errors in your bbl file for bibtex ?? kv

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Thankx Hans, But why does this work with "def" and not with "vardef" . "list" is just a macro name i've used. And "A,B,C,A" is just the replacement text I want when I call the macro "list". Is there any other way of doing this? Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Page number in outer margin?
by John Culleton 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

I want to place the page number vertically centered in the outer margin, with some prettyprinting. Does one do this with the \setpagenumber command, the \inmargin command, or some combination thereof? I can figure out how to do it in plain TeX but I hate to revert to plain just for this feature. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Re: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #715 - 2 msgs
by Jonathan Nicholl 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

On 7 Apr 2004, at 11:00, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > In the following code : > > vardef list = > A , B , C , A > enddef; > > def triangle = > forsuffixes $=list: > pair T.$; > endfor; > enddef; > > beginfig(1) > triangle; > > path T; > > T.A = (2,3); > T.B = (3,5); > T.C = (2,6); > > T = T.A -- T.B -- T.C -- cycle; > draw T; > > endfig; > > end; > > > In macro "list" if i give just "def" instead of "vardef" the program > works fine. > But with "vardef" i'm getting many errors. > I'm not able to figure this out. > Please help; > > thanx in advance. > Vinuth. Vinuth, I've been trying to get clear about issues like this recently. Perhaps my answer will not be completely correct. But here goes. One difference between 'def' and 'vardef' is that 'def' makes the symbolic token which follows into a spark, whereas vardef leaves it as a tag. (This is the language that Knuth uses in his Metafont Book.) The difference between sparks and tags is the readiness with which Metafont interprets their meaning. So far as Metafont is concerned, your input consists of a stream of tokens, and at some point in its digestion of your input file it has to interpret each of these tokens. But the stage of digestion at which it interprets a symbolic token depends on whether it is a spark or a tag. It interprets sparks sooner than it interprets tags. Generally speaking - there are ways to prevent it - Metafont interprets sparks in its mouth, whereas the stage at which it interprets tags depends on the circumstances. This is why your program works if you define the symbolic token 'list' using 'def': 'list' becomes a spark whose meaning is 'A,B,C,A'. As soon as Metafont reads 'for suffixes $=list' it interprets 'list', replacing it with 'A,B,C,A'. So writing 'forsuffixes $=list' is equivalent to writing 'forsuffixes $=A,B,C,A'. Perhaps you have guessed now why your program does not work if you define 'list' using 'vardef': 'list' remains a tag and so when Metafont reads 'forsuffixes $=list' it does not interpret it at once. In fact, it never interprets it. For the tags in the suffixes of variable names are never interpreted, and 'forsuffixes' causes 'list' to be treated as the suffix of a variable name. The tags in the suffixes of variable names just form part of the name. Only the subscripts in the suffixes of variable names are interpreted. 'forsuffixes $=list: pair T.$[]; endfor;' is equivalent to 'pair T.list;' Look at the following program: 1 vardef list = 2 1 3 enddef; 4 5 forsuffixes $=list: 6 T $ = 2; 7 endfor; 8 9 show(T list); 10 show(T 1); 11 show(T [list]); 12 13 end; Lines 1-3 assign the meaning the number 1 to the variable name 'list'; they are equivalent to 'list := 1;'. Lines 5-7 make the number 2 the meaning of the variable name 'T list'; they are equivalent to 'T list = 2;'. Line 9 produces the output '>>2', because 2 is the value of 'T list'. Line 10 produces the output '>>T1' because the variable has no value; 'T1' is undefined. Line 11 is interesting. The square brackets around 'list' force evaluation of the variable 'list', so 'show(T [list]);' is equivalent to 'show(T 1);'. The output is '>>T1' again. What do you think that the output of the following program will be? def list = 1 enddef; forsuffixes $=list: T $ = 2; endfor; show(T list); show(T 1); show(T [list]); end; In summary, vardef is intended for giving meanings to variable names. You should be suspicious of 'vardef list = A,B,C,A; enddef;' because A,B,C,A cannot be the value of a variable name. (I assume that this was Hans's point, when he said that Metapost lacks the concept of a list.) If you want to understand things like this, I strongly recommend that you read Knuth's Metafont Book. It makes everything very clear, and nowhere else is the detail explained. The most relevant chapters are the ones on variables, macros, and loops. Best wishes, Jonathan Afterthought: to grasp the difference between a name and the meaning of the name compare '"Vinuth" contains six letters' with 'Vinuth contains six letters.'

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help required w.r.t " vardef " in mpost.
by vinuth madinur 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

In the following code : vardef list = A , B , C , A enddef; def triangle = forsuffixes $=list: pair T.$; endfor; enddef; beginfig(1) triangle; T.A = (2,3); T.B = (3,5); T.C = (2,6); T = T.A -- T.B -- T.C -- cycle; draw T; endfig; end; In macro "list" if i give just "def" instead of "vardef" the program works fine. But with "vardef" i'm getting many errors. I'm not able to figure this out. Please help; thanx in advance. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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[Thanks !] mpost called from context
by Laurent Chéno 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

( please excuse my poor english ) Thank you very much : this works now very well. Best regards, Laurent For others beginners under MacOS X, there is the right way I used : 0. intall the Gerben Wierda's distribution of teTeX : see http://www.rna.nl/tex.html 1. modify line 50 of /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf so it is : shell_escape = t 2. copy /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme into ~/Library/texmf/tex/context/cont-sys.tex and delete the %-comment in front of lines 87--88 : \runMPgraphicstrue \runMPTEXgraphicstrue

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Fill-in fields
by olivier Turlier 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hello Contexers, I try to put a bit of user/reader interaction with javascript fields. (I must thanks Hans for his existing docs, but even if they come in a brilliant fashion, they don't put me to light, must get another fresh new brain) Working step by step, I first try to reproduce Hans given source code exemples. So I've copied/pasted this : By using \fillinfield {objects} when suited, this module saves space anyway. but it does not give the same output than in up-001-s.pdf (the blue frame disapear when you type in the correct text-string, in that case : object. What kind of control, or preamble must I put for having this working? Thankd in advance for your answers. olivier Turlier

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read it immediately
by pragma＠pi.net 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

ok

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How to rotate a single character on a line?
by Stefan Wachter 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hi all. I want to use some arrows of the ZapfDingbats fonts. Most of the arrows included in this font are directed from left to right. I tried to use \rotate to produce arrows directed to different directions. Yet, rotate produces new lines. Example: \definefontsynonym[ZapfDingbats][zd] \definefont[Zapf][ZapfDingbats at 24pt] \rotate[rotation=180]{\Zapf\char234} {\Zapf\char234} The example is intended to produce an arrow directed to the left followed by an arrow directed to the right. The result however is an arrow directed to the left followed by a new line with an arrow directed to the right. intended: <- -> result: <- -> Does someone know how the new line can be suppressed? Thanks, --Stefan

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Changing header size on chapter-pages
by Holger Schöner 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, I am currently trying to create a letter style. The first page of each letter (introduced by the heading-command \letter; many letters could be in one document) should have a high header (11cm) to provide space for logo, etc. (which I am planning to define using layers, inspired by details.pdf). All other pages should have a different and smaller header (1cm). Currently I am playing around with the following setup, which unfortunately does not work (without the \setupheadertexts[\setups{normalpagesetup}] all pages beginning from the first letter have long headers; with this line included, also the first page of each letter has only the short height): %% Start of a new letter; heading text is used only in an optional table of contents \definehead[letter][title] \setuphead[letter][placehead=empty,header=firstpageheader,coupling=title] %% Header for first pages \definetext[firstpageheader][header][\setups{firstpagesetup}][] \startsetups firstpagesetup \setuplayout[header=11.0cm] \stopsetups %% Header for other pages \startsetups normalpagesetup \setuplayout[header=1.0cm] \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[\setups{normalpagesetup}] The attachment gives the complete example ... Is it possible to get a layout on pages with title-headings (eg.), which is different from the usual one? -- Holger F. Schoener TU Berlin; Dept. IV: EE and Computer Science hfsch(a)cs.tu-berlin.de http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~hfsch/ Rooms FR2525 Tel: +49-30-314-73115, Fax: -73121 Office FR 2-1 Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany

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